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The legal challenges facing the waste management sector (increasing recovery targets), market volatility (manifested in changing raw material prices), the introduction of a deposit system (potential loss of the most valuable material fractions in the waste stream), as well as the ongoing discussion about implementing extended producer responsibility (EPR) mechanisms in Poland, create real dilemmas: What should be done? What should we prepare for? Is it worth building a sorting plant if a deposit system is introduced? In what direction should the modernization of municipal waste sorting plants go? Will sorting waste be cost-effective? What factors influence this? What decisions should be made? What should guide these decisions?

Users of sorting plants and investors, as well as those responsible for waste management in enterprises and municipalities that face waste management goals, encounter a wealth of information and often contradictory opinions in the public space. In the face of abundant information, there is often a lack of clear guidelines and substantive support in terms of directions and solutions for waste processing, especially sorting municipal waste.

The website will contain original observations and analyses on municipal waste management, legal requirements, conditions, challenges and technological solutions in connection with economic prospects for Polish conditions. The aim of the published content is not only to present the world of dilemmas and challenges, dependencies and mechanisms, but also to indicate what is constant, what is a principle, what should be guided by in the face of changing conditions and uncertainty, and what should be guided by when making decisions.

On the site, I have included a quote from Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: “Nobody is further from their goal than when they do not know where they are going.” I hope that the content posted here will help in setting goals and directions, as well as in making good and effective decisions, not necessarily impressive ones. Independent, self-determined goal-setting is a fundamental principle of efficiency. The decisions and actions to be taken depend on where you are going.

If the content on this page proves helpful to even a few people, it will have served its purpose.

Finally, a word of explanation regarding the name of the website. In short: the final destination of waste is not the environment, but the economy. 

However, there is another level. Waste is not only the domain of ecologists, engineers, lawyers, or politicians. Waste management has an important economic dimension, related to the functioning of market mechanisms and their shaping, making choices, focusing on efficiency and properly defined development, which is the goal of economic processes.

Problems with waste and waste management are side effects of dominant production and consumption models. Effective solutions to these problems can be found primarily at the level where they arise. The economy is therefore the area where solutions to waste-related problems should be sought.

The future of sorting does not depend on technology, but on economy.

And therefore: waste to economy.

I invite you to read, as well as to send comments or questions. 

Thank you.

Marek Klimek